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June 17, 2011
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Rebecca Black's “Friday” Unceremoniously Yanked From YouTube
“Friday” just got a case of the Mondays! The insanely viral music video by Rebecca Black was brought back down to reality amid a rights dispute between the 13-year–old Internet-famous pop princess and her record label, Ark Music Factory. The video, which has more than 167 million views, had been available as a rental for $2.99 before Black made a copyright claim and it was yanked from YouTube. Now there's a certain air of melancholia floating around the Web. But those bordering on existential crisis shouldn’t fret. There's a bootleg of the video currently living on Vimeo.
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Jun 17, 2011
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Runtime
00:43